On Saturday, November 28 at noon, the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, Trinity United Methodist Church, and Bethany Church, United Church of Christ will ring their church bells and folks will gather in a vigil on the lawn of Kellogg Hubbard Library to send messages of hope to world leaders at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
The Conference convenes November 30 in Paris for critical decision-making on reducing global carbon emissions, thereby slowing climate change.
This Paris meeting is the next in a series of talks that began in 1989 to attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Since the first agreement to decrease emissions was signed in 1997, emissions of carbon dioxide have increased from 6 billion tons a year to 10 billion tons per year.
As communities experience the increasing environmental damage from climate change, and more people understand the urgency involved in lowering greenhouse emissions, movements across the globe are demanding action from world leaders.
“The recent terrorist attacks in Paris should push us to address the root causes of the rise of extremism and terrorist violence across the globe including the instability contributed to by climate change-induced drought in places like Syria and our dependence on fossil fuels,” said the Rev. Joan Javier-Duval of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier. “We must see addressing the climate crisis as a vital part of achieving global peace.”
People across Vermont will be mobilizing to show support for the U.N. Climate Change Conference and for the climate activists gathered in Paris, including the following actions: Nov 28, 10am vigil in Middlebury; Nov 30, 7am climate rally in Norwich; Dec 12, Jobs, Justice, Climate! Rally in Boston (bus information at 350VT.org).
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